Habakkuk 2
God Answers The Prophet
And station myself on the rampart;
And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,
And how I may reply when I am reproved.
“Record the vision
And inscribe it on tablets,
That the one who reads it may run.
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.
His soul is not right within him;
But the righteous will live by his faith.
So that he does not stay at home.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.
Even mockery and insinuations against him
And say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his—
For how long—
And makes himself rich with loans?’
And those who collect from you awaken?
Indeed, you will become plunder for them.
All the remainder of the peoples will loot you—
Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
To put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of calamity!
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are sinning against yourself.
And the rafter will answer it from the framework.
And founds a town with violence!
That peoples toil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?
With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,
As the waters cover the sea.
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!
Now you yourself drink and expose your own nakedness.
The cup in the LORD’S right hand will come around to you,
And utter disgrace will come upon your glory.
And the devastation of its beasts by which you terrified them,
Because of human bloodshed and violence done to the land,
To the town and all its inhabitants.
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.
To a mute stone, ‘Arise!’
And that is your teacher?
Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver,
And there is no breath at all inside it.
Let all the earth be silent before Him.”